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Letters Patent No. 82,860, dated October 6, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEGHANIGAL McvBMEN'r.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. METTEN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Mechanical Movement; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference Abeing had to the accompanying drawings,making a. part of this specificetion, in which-- Figure 1 is an elevation of onoside of the'new mechanical movement.

Figure 2 is a view of` the opposite side of the same, showing the movement in a position directly opposite to that represented in tig. 1. A

Figure 3 isa top view of the movement.

Figures 4 and 5 are enlarged `sectional views in detail.

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This invention is chieily applicable to sewing-machinery employing a treadle and balance-wheel for communicating motion to the sewing-mechanism, and it is designed t prevent noise' and vibration ofthe machinery while in operation; at the same time, to allow lof a continuous steady movement being imparted thereto.

The nature of my invention consists in communicating rotaryr motion to a balance-wheel by the vibration of a foot-stand or treadle, acting upon said wheel by the medium of vibrating patri-carrying arms, said parts being so constructed and combined that the pawls shall operate alternately and noiselessly upon a friction-band, applied on 4the hub of the balance-wheel, and give two propelling impulses thereto every vibrationor double stroke of the treadle, as will be hereinafter explained. v

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, Iwill describe its construction, and operation i In the accompanying drawings, B represents a balance-wheel, which is mounted upon a fixed-horizontal shaft, d, so as to turn freely around this shaft, and A represents an upright standard or frame, made in any suitable manner adapted to the requirements of the case, which aords a support for said shaft and wheel, and to which the shaft may be clamped or confined in any suitable manner. For a sewing-machine, the standardji may constitute one of the legs or supports for the table upon which thesewing-mechanism is applied, andthe shaft d may he'cast with such leg or standard.

The wheel B is'constructed with a cylindrical flanged hub, E, on one side of it, adapted for receiving around its periphery a covering, p, of India rubber, cloth, leather, on other suitable substance, which will vbe slightly yielding, and which will aiford a noiseless friction-surface. The flanges on this hub E, shown 'in figs. 3 and 5, form an annular groove or recess for receiving and keeping the hand or coveringp in its place.

Upon the extended endof the shaft d, two short arms, g g, are applied, so as to vibrate freely through an arc of ncarl'y one hundred and eighty degrees, in different planes. These arms `are both 'of an equal length,

and each one has pivoted to its free end a pawl, c, which is acted uponby a. spring, L, that presses its rounded acting face against the surface of the friction-bandi). One of these pawls c is appliedso' as to act upon the hub of wheel B only when its arm gis raised, and the otherfpawl acts upon said hub only when its arm is depressed. Thus, by vibrating the two arms simultaneously, they being on oppositesid'es of the axis of the hub E, the pawls c c will give a continuous rotary motion to the wheel B in one dircetionm' The free ends ofthe two arms g g are pivoted -to the upper ends of two rods, C C, which rods extend downward, and are pivoted by a single pin, a, to an extension of a-treadle, D, as clearly shown in the drawings. The treadle D is pivoted at b Z1 to supports,vwhich are fastened to the bed A.'

It will be seen from the above description lthat the two connecting-rods C C operate to throw up and to depress the free'ends of' both pawl-carrying arms, g g, simultaneously, while the two pawls, o c, operate alternately upon the hub of wheel B, to turn this wheel in one direction. It will also be seen that both pawls operate as stops to prevent said wheel from turning backward, thus rendering the useof a separate back-stop unnecessary. Y

I do not claim, broadly, double-acting eccentrica or clutches adapted for actingdirectly upon the shaft of a y-Wheel, as I am aware that this is not new; nor is it new to employ a single treadle and two connecting-rods for operating such clutches and eccentrcs. By my invention I provide for having double-acting pawls operate directly upon an anti-friction substance, p, applied around the hub of the y-wheel. i i Having-described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A balance-wheel, B, constructed within. anged hub, having a friction-band,p, applied thereto, in combina- -ition with a treadle-motion and vibrating pawls e c, arranged to operate substantially as described.

Witness my hand, in the matter" of my invention of a mechanical movement for sewing and other machines worked by a treadle, this 7th day of August, 1868.

GEO. R. METTEN.

Witnesses:

JULIUS Hnsen', J. N. CAMPBELL. 

